The Three Pigs

Wiesner, D. (2001).  The three pigs.  NY:  Clarion.

This is a traditional tale of The Three Little Pigs with a twist.  As the wolf tries to blow the houses down, he ends up blowing the pigs right out of the pages of the story.  After all the pigs are safely on the outside, they use the pages from the story to make an airplane and soar through several pages in the book.  Eventually they crash, run into a meadow of nursery rhymes, and save a dragon.  At the end, they went back into the story, where they lived happily ever after.  This is a Caldecott Award Winning Book for the illustrations.  They perfectly depict what is happening in the story and the pigs look very life-like as they are blown out of the pages.  Speech bubbles are used for the talking pigs while they are out in the imaginary land. At one point in the story when they encounter the dragon, it is only on black and white sketches.  As they pull the dragon out of the story, he becomes alive with use of color.